RE: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Look it up on the web... There are many many sites with good illustrations and such. Keep in mind that most people use the 568b standards. Just google for 568b wiring and one of the first few sites will probably be readable by you. Joe Fry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message-

Slow writes using hardware ata raid on older server

2004-11-08 Thread Joseph H. Fry
I've finally got a clean updated stable FreeBSD box, thank you all who have invested your time creating documentation that makes it so easy for us newbies. Anyway, I had gentoo on the machine for about 10 minutes... Had a problem with writing to my Megaraid i4 controller... It was terribly slow (<

RE: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Not to mention, if there are enough clients hosting, then downloads can often be faster. Why? Because partial downloads can be pulled from multiple sources. I just downloaded the miniinst iso in under 15min at an average rate of about 360KB/s from a pool of 10 servents (bittorrent server/clients

RE: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-07 Thread Joseph H. Fry
> > Also, does doing all of this bring me to the most recent stable > > release? (I noticed that 5.3 was released yesterday, > presumably just > > after I downloaded 5.2.1). > > If you've used the correct TAG in your cvsup files and have > cvsup'd over the last day or so, then you should build 5.3

RE: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-06 Thread Joseph H. Fry
> Once in single user mode, ssh is out of the question. In single user > mode, only > *person* can login, and that is at the actual terminal. > Depending on the situation, for example. My firewall is at the other > side of the > house, without a keyboard/monitor. > Since the box doesn't have any

First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-06 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Hello everyone! Seeing as how this is my first post to this fine mailing list, I first want to make sure that my message is formatted properly. I'm using MS Outlook (cringe) and don't want to offend anyone if it's formatted incorrectly. Anyway, on to my real question. I have my system installed